Journalistic
ethics have been abandoned in favor of the politics of personal preference. Nowhere
is this more evident than in the nasty and distorted news coverage of the
presidential campaign of Republican nominee Donald Trump. In a recent interview
on NewsmaxTV, Emmy award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson told
host Steve Malzberg that she saw and heard an ex-news media bureau chief urge
journalists to jettison their ethics and focus on bringing down Trump. During
the television appearance, Attkisson recounted her attendance at an awards
dinner in Washington, D.C. for a journalist group. “I was in a room of
journalists in which one of them encouraged the others quite publicly to step
up and do something because he said the outcome of this election was so
important… He was talking about journalists stepping outside of their role to
make sure Donald Trump doesn’t get elected. And he received applause for that,”
Attkisson said. [more...]

It’s time for Donald Trump to turn the tables on Hillary.
It’s so obvious that Hillary and her cabal of socialists and media scam artists
are going to try to make Donald Trump’s tax returns the biggest issue of the
Fall. Their game plan is so easy to read - Hillary’s bribed media partners will
turn up the heat on Trump like clockwork in a coordinated media blitz right
after Labor Day. I have the perfect response for Donald. He should say, “I’ll
release my tax returns on the spot... as soon as Hillary locates her 32,000
deleted e-mails - when she releases all Clinton Foundation records, the
transcripts of her speeches to Goldman Sachs, and her authenticated medical
records.” [more...]

When
Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee County said that absentee fathers, gangs,
questionable lifestyle behaviors, and related pathologies are at the root of
the recent rioting in Milwaukee, he was simply saying that culture is a
critical, if not THE critical, driver of human events. This is true, not
only in America but in Iraq and Afghanistan and all points in between.
Unfortunately, it appears this is a lesson we will have to learn the hard way. [more...]

Why
all the riots? I believe that riots serve to distract Americans from focusing
on the important issues America faces during this presidential election. I’m
not suggesting that any campaign is purposely starting riots. However, some
people might try to use the riots to distract from major threats of global
terrorism or the anemic economy, for example. As I explain in my book on the
2016 presidential election, Great News for America, there are major
political party realignments taking place during this election. Support groups
that were once thought to be impervious to change are in the early process of
fragmenting. Some people might try to use rioting as an attempt to hold old
coalitions together for a little longer. [Go here for a complete analysis...]

We
are half a year removed from a time when oil was at a low and stock investors
cringed as asset prices moved in lockstep with crude. The spring and summer
have been kind on the market though. Oil prices have risen to stable ground and
major stock indexes have reached all-time highs. What’s next? For two years,
global oil production has sharply outpaced demand. This supply glut drove
prices lower and caused suffering for the international and domestic
industries. My own backyard, Louisiana, was hit significantly hard with job
cuts, business closures, and a decimated state economy. Since 2014, more than
12,000 jobs have been lost in the Louisiana oil and gas industry. Nationwide,
that number has approached 200,000. [more...]

There
has been a continued media blackout on the whereabouts of USTR Michael Froman;
preliminary timeline for the TPP ratification vote in Congress; Congressional opposition
to TPP grows; human rights abuses among prospective TPP partner countries; and
the TTIP is floundering. [more...]